- Bronze age settlement of the site of the Trojan War. The inhabitants probably spoke Luvian, an Indo-European language related to Hittite. Founded by Scamander 1546 - ?Scamander

18 - 1700 Tell Leilan Syria

1800 - 1650 Ebla City Syria

2347 - 1909 438 Arphaxad

2292 - 1859 433 Sarah

2217 - 1978 239 Reu

2185 - 1955 230 Serug ^^^^^ Shem

1998 950 Noah

1996 - 1821 175 Abraham - Abraham 1994

1921 Abraham & Lot left Ur for Canaan.

1919Famine drove Abraham and Lot into Egypt.

1916 Abraham & Lot separated

1913 The Elamites invaded Sodom. Chedoralaomer took Lot and all the people of Sodom captive. Abraham pursued and recaptured all. He killed the four kings. Genesis 14

1913 - 1776 137 Ishmael Fathered 12 sons and became the father of the Arab nations.

1908 Hagar, Sarahs slave mistress, bore Abraham a son, Ishmael. Ishmael lived 137 years. He fathered 12 sons and became the father of the Arab nations.

2000 - 1550 Sarcophogus at Ashkelon

1898 Circumcision Covenant

1876 - 1716 180 Isaac

1846 600 Shem

1836Esau & Jacob Twin sons born to Isaac and Rebekah

1996 -1821 175 Abraham

1817Eber died at 464

1892 Sodom & Gomorah destroyed - Sodom and Gomorrah 1963

1836 - 1689 147 Jacob

1910 - 1773 137 Ishmael

1752 Jacob had twelve sons from whom sprang the "Twelve Tribes" of the Israelites. Jacob married both Leah (by trickery) and Rachel. Leah bore Jacob six sons and one daughter. Her maid, Zilpah, whom she caused to be a surrogate mother for her, bore Jacob two sons. Rachel bore Jacob two sons and her maid, Bilhah, whom she caused to be a surrogate mother for her, bore Jacob two sons.

1700 All Babylonia was permanently united. The capital, "Babylon the Great," for some 1700 years stood as the queen city of the world. Pliny says, "It was the greatest city the sun ever shone upon." "Its walls, 300 feet high and 75 feet wide, enclosed an area of 225 square miles. Its temples, palaces, fortresses, brazen gates, quays, artificial mountains and lakes, made it one of the Seven Wonders of the World." Strabo.